Regulatory Environment
To specify the legal inventory, see Managing the Regulatory Library.The legal inventory constitutes the regulation framework repository applying to an organization. The regulation framework comprises:
• regulations
A regulation or policy is a set of directives, compulsory or not, defined by a government in a law, by standard bodies as "best practices" or as an internal policy in an organization.• requirements
A requirement is a need or expectation explicitly expressed, imposed as a constraint to be met within the context of a project. This project can be a certification project or an organizational project or an information system project.Consulting Requirements
To consult requirements:
In the HOPEX IRM desktop, click Environment > Regulations.You can use this tree to view:
• Whether requirements apply to the organization
• Which controls implement these requirements
Columns display:
• The number of sub-requirements
• The number of impacted entities, processes and applications.
Specifying Requirement Scope
To connect a constrained element to a requirement:
1. In the HOPEX IRM desktop, click Environment > Regulations.
2. Open the requirement properties and select the Characteristics > Scope.
For each requirement, the number of immediate requirements and constrained elements appear.